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Traveling cross-country isn't usually the most eco-friendly of tasks, but if done without gasoline, it can become one--and that is precisely what Shaun Murphy and the COOLFUEL team have done. They shunned gasoline and turned instead to creative alternatives to run their custom-made machines. From New York to Iowa, the crew will surprise you with the resources they were able to find and turn into fuel. In Iowa, it's corn whiskey and prairie grass. In New York, it's garbage. And to reach the Mississipi River, Shaun flies a plane fueled by corn.
COOLFUEL geniuses around the country help out Shaun and the rest of the crew as they take each new step. In Missouri, Shaun borrows a BMW that runs on corn whiskey, and he rides the water-powered El Chopper motorbike through Colorado, where he meets up with Daryl Hannah, and visits her eco-ranch. They also meet the Ayatolla Granola of Canola. Yes, this is an actual biofuel supplier, and he helps them out in a bind when they start running low on biofuel.
In New Mexico, after searching and searchingthe crew realizes there are no more wind turbines to be found, Shaun uses only the wind to take a glider to 16,000 feet above the mountains. Gets pretty intense! And in New York, Shaun & company set out to find garbage dumps that produce power. They comb the streets from Times Square to Wall Street, and then over to New Jersey on an electric Harley as temperatures drop to 20 degrees, to build up for their mission to reach Washington, D.C. full of garbage but free of gasoline.
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